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Didn't read the article, but I'm guessing that you are referring to Q2 2014 vs Q2 2013. If so, that's because Q1 2014 was awful due to poor weather (it was snowy & cold for much of Q1, so people delayed purchasing junk).
And here is what will not be publicized. In a few weeks that 1% growth in the 2nd quarter will be adjusted down, as virtually every economic growth factor has been adjusted for years.
They're supposed to be on subsidized housing and food stamps forever.
Do people work as a "burger flipper" forever? I don't think that they should. I also don't think that is all they are capable of doing.
I did my time at minimum wage (pumping gas). Never did I think that was my lifetime job. Never did I think someone should subsidize me because I wanted that to be my lifetime job. There was real motivation for me to not have that be my lifetime job.
There's a difference between being "well off" and being poorer than you used to be. That's what burger flippers are. Their pay has not increased with the cost of living. Believe me, they never deluded themselves into think they will, or even should be, "well off."
Well, if it's good news I can guarantee nobody will be yelling, "It's Obama's fault!" He only gets credit when something goes wrong ... even those things totally outside the president's purview.
There's a difference between being "well off" and being poorer than you used to be. That's what burger flippers are. Their pay has not increased with the cost of living. Believe me, they never deluded themselves into think they will, or even should be, "well off."
I agree the poor economic performance and low jobs growth are his fault. The senate refuses to even vote on house passed jobs bills, war on coal=war on coal jobs, delaying regs on ACA increases business uncertainty driving down jobs growth from what it could be.
Obama and his party want no blame for thE Great Recession yet the jobs growth since that low bubble was a given bounce back from the stimulus, GM bailout tarp etc which were developed in a bi partisan way during the crisis. Obama only wants responsibility for the good even when the bad he blames on the GOP alone was caused by both parties, guess who controlled congress and wanted everyone to own a home so lenders did not check income or anything when loans were approved......genius DC.
They're supposed to be on subsidized housing and food stamps forever.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. What they're supposed to do is work as burger flippers while going to school, getting an education or learning a trade, and otherwise generally improving their circumstances and advancing their careers. If they're still burger flippers at age 40 then they're there because of their own poor life decisions and lack of initiative. I make an exception for retirees who have decided that they want or need to go back to work to supplement their incomes, but thats the only exception.
I worked at plenty of crappy burger flipper type jobs when I was a kid, started at $3.35 an hour in the early 1980s, but I certainly never intended that to be my peak earning years! It was a good learning experience that taught me the value of a hard days work, and the value of the money that I earned. In other words, it served as a good starting point, nothing more. That's all a job like that is supposed to be, a starting point. I guess today jobs like this only teach people how to **** and moan about how bad they have it - or rather tweeting their complanints on their $400 iPhones.
Actually that sentence was about personal dividend income, not corporate. but I'm guessing that the big corporations are doing OK too.
Well, you know what they say - You can never be too rich or too thin.
Financially I'm doing better than about 75% of the folks in the country and that's more than comfortable for me but I could stand to lose more than a few pounds.
But where does personal dividend income come from?
Believe me, they never deluded themselves into think they will, or even should be, "well off."
That's nonsense as well. Do you mean to tell me that every fast food worker in America is somehow forever stuck in their jobs without the ability to advance their careers? Anyone who thinks like your post suggests will never achieve anything in life, even if you do pay them $15 per hour. But I refuse to believe that most, or even a large percentage of fast food workers think that they have no other options. Most will flip burgers for a while and then move up and on as they aquire the education and skills to do so. As for the ones who don't, giving them more money won't help them anyway. It'll just be more money to spend on smokes, booze and iPhones. Teaching and motivating them to do the things they need to do to earn more is what they really need.
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